Book Discussion groups - Canon titles

Library-wide book discussion group titles

The Canon, a "Great Books" discussion group

• Healdsburg Regional Library "The Canon" Book Group

Past & present titles selected by this group

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Counterfeiters by André Gide
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Iliad by Homer
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Loved One: An Anglo American Tragedy by Evelyn Waugh
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
• Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe